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Originally Posted by elly63
Agree with most of the above but I have a problem with some of the dirty little tricks being pulled by the corporate media giants (and I'm not a conspiracy guy...Oswald did it)
I'm not sure if the Golden Horseshoe will grow as you think. The census has the population trending westward and traditionally the people who went to Southern Ontario are now heading west. It will be interesting to see the inevitable clash of cultures that could take place in the conservative west. We're already seeing it in Quebec.
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Look man, I had family that came over investor class very recently from the States (they were too old to immigrate conventional class) and they were told point blank by the immigration consultant that they had to go to Saskatchewan or Manitoba because they were the only provinces with sufficient sized quotas to fill. The federal government gives several small provinces 6,000+ quotas via the nominee program while only giving Ontario 1,200. Efforts to increase the quota have been declined. There will be an election in 2015 and things likely will change with a new government.
Anyway, politics aside, 120,000 a year growth in population in the golden horseshoe alone is no joke, even if short term trends vary subtly in one direction, they can and most probably will change. Long term Ontario always has been a growth province and its share of the national population has consistently grown regardless of population growth in various other regions. Let's not forget that Saskatchewan boomed over several decades to 1 million, then declined over several decades to 700,000 then back again up to 1 million. Noone knows what the next 2 decades will bring in terms of growth rates, but the long term trend and track record is Ontario will continue to grow and dominate demographically regardless of a slowdown or growth in its population growth rate.